"Blackmail," cried Washington's U.S. Senator Henry Jackson. "Nuclear
blackmail," said London's News Chronicle. Across the Atlantic world,
statesmen sighed and prepared to man their battle stations. France's
Charles de Gaulle was demanding a place in the front rank again.

The latest scuffle was touched off by youthful-looking U.S. General
Lauris Norstad, 52, NATO commander in Europe, whom Old Soldier de
Gaulle treats as a subaltern. De Gaulle has vastly complicated
Norstad'sand NATO'sexistence by 1) refusing to accept launching...